Saturday, 23 November, 2024

Month: August 2020


The power play between the Chairman, House Committee on Treaties, Agreements and Protocol, Ossai Nicholas Ossai  and a member of the committee, Wole Oke, assumed a new dimension yesterday, as the committee adjourned to Tuesday, next week. The committee is  investigating Read more…


The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo says there are over 25,000 COVID-19 deaths on the African continent. The UN health agency gave the update on its regional official Twitter account @WHOAFRO. WHO stated on its Read more…


This was made known in a statement by the Principal Staff Officer, Public Affairs, of the Agency, Mr Jonah Achema, in Abuja on Wednesday. According to the statement, Chairman, NDLEA, Col. Muhammad Abdallah (Rtd) said this comes after the follow Read more…


The leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked both Federal and State Governments to immediately pay all the arrears of the withheld salaries of its members to pave for further discussion on the outstanding issues that led Read more…


Armed hoodlums have attacked the house of a Fulani herdsman in Ankpa, Kogi State, where they killed 28 cows and made away with seven others. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered in Lokoja that the armed hoodlums invaded the Read more…


Dr Ugboaja recently added another year to his age. We at Vision Newspapers Online rejoiced with him, and thought it would be apt to ask him to respond to a couple of pressing issues the teeming public would like to Read more…


A senior Russian military adviser with the rank of major general has been killed in an attack in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, the Defense Ministry has confirmed. Two more Russian servicemen were injured in the incident. A Russian military Read more…


The traditional ruler of Mmiata Anam in Anambra West Local governmentArea Igwe Sylvester Nnose, has commended Governor Willie Obiano, for the completion of the Mmiata Bridge which links Nzam, the Anambra West Local Government Headquarters, with the rest of the Read more…


Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage has reportedly exposed a 30-year old man simply identified as Jomaph, as the rapist of an 11-year old girl in Sapele, Delta state. The incident reportedly happened last Wednesday morning. Although details surrounding the incident were Read more…


Few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari received his predecessor in office, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, at State House, Abuja. Dr Jonathan, who is ECOWAS Special Envoy to the Republic of Mali, mutineering soldiers in the country has detained President Ibrahim Boubacar Read more…


The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Tuesday, granted bail to a legal practitioner and social critic, Emperor Ogbonna, six months after he was detained by the Department of State Service, DSS, for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari. Justice Taiwo Read more…


THE Kano State branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has reacted to the death sentence passed on a Kano singer, Yahaya Aminu Sharif. Recall that Sharif was convicted of blasphemy by a Shari’a Court in Kano. Speaking on the Read more…